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hawky en · ADJ

Etymology

From hawk + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a hawk.
   • He was a tall man with very powerful-looking shoulders, but his flesh seemed to sag thinly over his big frame; his face was thin, too, over a hawky nose and receding chin and gray hair. 1953, Mignon Good Eberhart, The unknown quantity:
   • He had a hawky face with a high colour and eyes like slits of blue crystal, set in a web of fine lines. They were hard but not unkind. 1963, D'Arcy Niland, The shiralee:

Forms

Deriveds

hawkiness

Synonyms

hawklike